18 - North Shore News - Friday, July 14. 2000

Players win

Martin Millerchip
Curtain Call
mumillerchip@nsnews.com

NORTH Vancouver
Community Players
(NVCP) are once again
provincial theatre
champs.

The thriving community
’ theatre group from Hendry

Hall sent Hugh | Leonard’s Da
to Theatre B.C.’s Mainstage
competition in Ladner Jast
week to compete against nine
other full-length productions
after it won the regional
North Shore zone a month
ago. And for the second time
in three years the Players came
home with the ultimate prize.

Theatre B.C. is the
umbrella organization for
community theatre in the
province. Besides facilitating

photo Gary Schwartz
DAVID Mcintosh played the title role of Da in North Vancouver Community

communication and training

. in theatre arts it also organizes
the annual theatre competi-
tion.

Besides the award for Best Production, adjudicator David
, Duffus as Best Director, Mark Gash as Best

Ross chose Barry

Actor and Troy Martell as Best Supporting Actor. It’s the fourth

Players’ production of the Hugh “Leonard piay of the same name that won the
Theatre B.C. Mainstage festival last week.

playwright coming to terms with his childhood and the role his
simple-minded father played in his upbringing until I saw this
NVCP production.

Once again [ was reminded that while community theatre is

often an uneven experience, every year I see a local production

that can stand with the best of professional theatre.

The North Shore is truly blessed with its community talent level.
production. Having caugnt the show during a performance tune- — NVCP opens tts 2000/01 season with Bernard Slade’s An Act
up at Presentation House three days earlier, I can understand of Imagination running Oct. 6-21 at Hendry Hall, 11th and

“why. Hendry. Box office: 983-2633.

‘To say there was not a single weak link in this production is
faint praise. While adjudicator Ross also considered actors David
McIntosh and Bob Weakes in the Best Actor and Best
Supporting Actor categories, the fact is he could have awarded
trophies to any member of the cast with full justification. I have
both seen and read the play but did nor fully appreciate the emo-
tional subdeties contained in Leonard’s story of a middle-aged

time that Gash has won the Mainstage award for male acting.
Publicist Anne Marsh says the audience at Genesis Theatre
Sunday rose to a full standing ovation at the end of the NVCP

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